Storms over the Balkans during the Second World War
A new interpretation of the history of the Balkans during the Second World War, exploring the tangled political rivalries, cultural clashes, and armed conflicts among the great powers, personified by Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Churchill, and Tito, and the indigenous people competing for influence an...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Oxford : Oxford University Press USA - OSO,
2022
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| Schlagworte: | World War, 1939-1945 War Balkan Peninsula Electronic books |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (306 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | A new interpretation of the history of the Balkans during the Second World War, exploring the tangled political rivalries, cultural clashes, and armed conflicts among the great powers, personified by Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Churchill, and Tito, and the indigenous people competing for influence and domination. Cover -- Storms over the Balkans During the Second World War -- Copyright -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Maps -- Introduction -- The Balkans as Region -- A Geography of Contrasts -- Irregular Warfare -- Kaleidoscopic Mix of Populations -- Prolonged State Building and Foreign Intervention -- The Austrians and Hungarians -- The Russians -- The Italians -- New Atmospheric Conditions -- Leadership -- PART ONE: THE STORMS BREAK -- 1: Mussolini -- 1.1 Spazio vitali -- 1.2 The First Fascist Trophy -- 1.3 Enemy Number One -- 1.4 The Brutal Friendship -- 1.5 Mussolini and Slovenia -- 1.6 Patronizing Terrorists -- 1.7 From Dalmatia to Epirus -- 1.8 The Albanian Protectorate -- 1.9 From Dreams to Nightmare -- 2: Hitler -- A Greater Germany -- Making Germans Again -- Danubian Illusions -- Racial Policy Compromised: Croatia -- Caught in the Crossfire -- A Serbian Puppet -- Ambivalent Collaborators-the Chetniks -- Decline and Fall -- The Albanian Exception -- 3: Stalin -- The Defensive Glacis -- Transitions to Socialism -- 4: Churchill -- Appeasing Italy -- The Mediterranean Strategy -- Linking Up with the Partisans -- The Greek Connection -- 5: Tito -- Tito as Leader -- A People's Liberation -- The Montenegro Rising -- The Federal Idea -- The Croatian Challenge -- The Slovenes: "Something Special" -- PART TWO: WIND RISING FROM THE EAST -- 6: Early Signs -- The Crisis over Trieste -- Piecing Together the New Yugoslavia -- Tito Spreads His Wings -- A Balkan Federation -- Engaging the Albanians -- 7: A Chill Sets In -- The Greek Imbroglio -- The Dénouement -- Tito's Fading Vision -- Conclusion: Storms Abate but then Build up -- Select Bibliography of Primary Sources -- Archives -- Published Documentary Collections -- Memoirs, Diaries -- Collected Works -- Periodicals -- Index. |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (306 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780192672780 0192672789 9780192858030 0192858033 |